Anant Murmu
PHD Student at VNIT Nagpur
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAnant Murmu is a PhD student and experienced academic leader with six years of professional experience, currently serving as Assistant Professor and Head at Nagpur Institute of Technology while pursuing doctoral research at VNIT Nagpur. Trained in civil engineering (B.Tech) and construction management (M.Tech) from VNIT, he blends rigorous engineering academics with hands-on teaching and departmental leadership. Beyond academia, he contributes to open-source software—most notably back-end fixes and extractor improvements for the popular yt-dlp media downloader—bringing practical coding chops to projects that require robust parsing and error handling. Comfortable moving between research, curriculum leadership, and applied software development, he demonstrates a rare cross-disciplinary fluency that benefits both students and collaborative engineering efforts.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanMaster of Technology (M.Tech.), Construction Management, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Construction Management at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
video-download10
extraction10
yt-dlp10
extractor10
ytdl10
python10
regex9
api8
apim8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 11 PRs, 10 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Anant primarily contributed to the `yt-dlp` project by fixing issues and enhancing functionality related to various extractors. These contributions involved improving the extraction of video information from specific websites, such as Stripchat, Zee5, and Voot. The user implemented new features, such as generating device IDs, improving error messages and improved existing code. They also made improvements to the core library and its usage of random strings.
pythonvideo-downloaderfixesyoutube-dlcsponsorblock
freezboltz/ani-cli
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
A cli tool to browse and play anime
Contributions:36 pushes, 21 branches in 6 months
cli-appcli-toolbrowseanimecli
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